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Comprehensive OHS Compliance Audit Checklist

by Tamryn Snelling, from the Community

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Use this comprehensive OHS compliance audit to verify adherence to legal and administrative requirements, committee structures, induction and training, incident reporting, and contractor control. Inspect premises and operations, fire protection, emergency routes, signage, lighting, ventilation, housekeeping, waste, and facilities. Evaluate stacking and storage, warehousing demarcation, machinery guarding and lockout, portable electrical tools, hazardous chemical substances controls with MSDS, hygiene stressors, medical surveillance, and COVID-19 compliance. Includes risk assessment review, external inspections, and signoff.

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Comprehensive OHS Compliance Audit
This comprehensive OHS compliance audit helps businesses evaluate legal and operational health and safety requirements across offices, warehouses, and industrial sites. It covers administrative and legal documentation, leadership assignments and training, health and safety representatives and committees, incident reporting, contractor control, lifting equipment operator competency, hazardous chemical management with safety data sheets, occupational hygiene factors including noise, lighting, ventilation and thermal stress, medical surveillance, signage, external inspections, emergency procedures and evacuation planning, first aid readiness, annual risk assessments, premises and facilities standards, stacking and storage controls, fire protection systems and training, machinery guarding and operation, isolation and lockout, portable electrical tools, and COVID-19 policies and responsibilities. Includes signoff and findings sections for audit closure.
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